Williams finished his career with the most Game 7 points in NHL history.
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My favorite part:
“It’s really just another game. It really is,” Williams said. “You have to want to be the guy and believe you can be the guy to make the difference and to be the one that wins the game for the team,” Williams said on Friday night. “Or to have the biggest impact. You can’t wait for anybody else to do it.
“That’s a lot of the advice I give — don’t wait for anybody else.
Also talks a lot about the importance of leadership passing down those experiences, and that you have to have fun with it.
“You enjoy it. You smile. You’re there. You’re happy you are in the lineup. That you can play this game for a living and have an opportunity to play one of those games.”
Sorry one last thing...
“Living on the East Coast, you get a sense of the lack of respect for the unknown that the Kings are,” Williams said. “Nobody knows really who they are. Nobody watches them play very often and therefore don’t really know what to expect.”
Williams laughed, and said: “How many points did they have? Almost 100?”
Ninety-nine.
“Almost 100 points this year. It’s no fluke (to do that) in the NHL. You can get (almost) 100 points and all of a sudden people were saying Edmonton is going to steamroll them.
You’re seeing the players now and certainly the young ones who are making their names known. ‘We’re not intimidated. We’re aware of the lack of respect that we’ve gotten throughout this series.’
“It’s sometimes even better – the fact that you can all work toward one goal and the fact that nobody believes in us but ourselves.
“This is just from an outsider who doesn’t watch the team regularly. But I’ve seen the team here in the playoffs and they certainly don’t look out of place, don’t look overwhelmed, don’t look overmatched and that’s why it is going to seven games.”
